FLORA SHUM

Artist, Educator, Cultural Worker

Education

OCAD University, Toronto, ON. — Bachelor of Fine Arts

2006 - 2010 Printmaking Major

Exhibitions
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2023 July - 2023 September Still Present Yet Absent, Next Contemporary, AURA collective, Toronto, ON.

2021 February - 2021 March No Danger in Being Enacted, the Run Gallery, group show, AURA collective, Toronto, ON.

2018 August to 2021 February Art of the Book, 10 locations national tour, including Audain Gallery, University of Victoria, Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain, Winnipeg, Craft Ontario, Toronto, Mary E. Black Gallery, Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, and Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

2017 February Virtual to Physical: thepostdigitalprintmaker, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY 

2015 November – December Curio Shadow Box Show, Earl Selkirk Gallery, Toronto, ON

2012 July PRESS exhibition, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, ON

2012 June Now, Then, Here, Always, Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, ON

*2011 October – November RLPA2011THF, George Gilmour Gallery, Open Studio, Toronto, ON

2011 May 100 Prints, Palais Royale, Toronto, ON 

2011 April Rock and Roll 3, Function 13, Toronto, ON

2010 December – 2011 Februrary Watershed: A Tale of Hong Kong and Belfast, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong

2010 December Convergence/Divergence: An International Prints Exchange Exhibition, exhibited at: Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong City Hall, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre and Queensway Government Offices, Hong Kong

2010 October Revealing the Matrix, PROOF Gallery, Toronto, ON.

2010 May Print Show, 2010 Print Thesis Show, Studio 561, Toronto, ON

2010 May Enter OCAD: 95th Annual Graduate Exhibition, OCAD University, Toronto, ON.

2010 April, 2010 Retro Show, OCAD University, Toronto, ON.

2010 March, 13th Annual Figure Show, OCAD University, Toronto, ON.

*Solo shows

Scholarship/Awards

Honourable Mention
Art of the Book, National Touring Show, 2018-2020, Canada

First Prize, Annual PRESS Exhibition
Button Factory Arts, 2012, Waterloo, ON.

Don Phillips Scholarship
Open Studio, 2010, Toronto, ON.

 Printmaking Award
Open Studio, 2010, Toronto, ON. 

Open Studio Prize
OCAD University, 2010, Toronto, ON.

Accu-Screen Supplies Ltd. Scholarship
OCAD University, 2010, Toronto, ON.

Professional Experience
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Paperhouse Studio
Co-Founder and Co-Director

2015 - PRESENT
180 Shaw Street, #102, Toronto, ON. M6J 2W5
paperhousestudio.com

Paperhouse Outreach Collective, Toronto
Co-Founder and Co-Director

2011 - PRESENT
180 Shaw Street, #102, Toronto, ON. M6J 2W5
paperhousestudio.com/outreach

AURA
Duo collective member with Raoul Olou

2021 - present

CARFAC Ontario
Coordinator and Artist Support

2022 - PRESENT, 401 Richmond St West, #414, Toronto, ON. M5V 3A8

carfacontario.ca

Kinngarni Katujjiqatigiit / ~ ᑭᙵᕐᓂ ᑲᑐᔾᔨᖃᑎᒌᑦ
Artist Facilitator, Administrative Assistant

2019 - 2022

Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON.
School Visits Visual Arts Teacher

2019 - 2020

OCAD University
Teaching Assistant

2014 - 2019

Contract Technician

2014

Class Assistant

2010 - 2014

Mozilla Foundation
Contract Project Manager, Facilitator, and Hive Toronto Coordinator

2016 - 2017

Arts Facilitation Experience
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Paperhouse Studio / Paperhouse Outreach Collective

• Zine Making

• Screen-printing on T-shirts and Totes

• Youth Council Training

• 3D Printed Watermarks

• Introduction to Papermaking Intensive

Ages: Children, teens and youth, and adults (4 - 30+)
Toronto, ON, 2013 - Present

Kinngarni Katujjiqatigiit

In partnership with Cape Dorset / Kinngait District Education Authority and Peter Pitseolak School and, Pangnirtung Land and Climate Program and Attagoyuk Ilisavik

• Papermaking

• Marbling

• Printmaking

Ages: Teens and youth (9 - 21)
Kinngait and Pangnirtung, NU, 2020-2021

Open Studio

• 8 week Introduction to Etching

• Etching Level II

• Private classes

Ages: Adults (18+)
Toronto, ON, 2013 - Present

 Harbourfront Centre

• Young Collagraphs

• Painted Creatures

• Government Studies

Ages: Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12 (4 - 18)
Toronto, ON, 2019 - 2020

Toronto District School Board, Central Technical School

• Advanced Etching Techniques Demonstration for Credit Programme

Ages: Adults (18+)
Toronto, ON, 2018

Portfolio

Intergenerationality

Hand Papermaking limited edition portfolio
2016
Maryland, U.S.

35th Annual Wayzgoose Anthology

2013
Grimsby, ON.

RMIT & OCADU Print Exchange

OCAD University
2010
Toronto, ON.

Public/Private Funding Experience

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